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[benlehman]

Eric Burns is my hero. For many reasons, really.

But especially for this.

If you are angry at them, read it. For any value of them.

http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/01/the_twelfth_com.html#comments

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[arianhwyvar.livejournal.com]

It's great reading a bunch of comments by people who don't fall into the traditional and absolutist 'left v right' dichotomies.

I found this an interesting definition of fundamentalism: "The truth is LESS important than what I ALREADY believe." It's a good point: is truth, or faith, more important to you? I think lots of people claim the first but hold to the second...and I don't think privileging faith over (best guess at) truth is necessarily a bad thing. But that opens up a whole can of interesting worms.

Do people who claim not to believe in the scientific method actually not believe in it? (Something I find impossible to comprehend, logically.) Or are they just saying that 'true' things found by that methodology are less important than the possibly conflicting beliefs they hold by faith? ("Your 'true' things don't touch the deeper truth I understand.")

I could ramble on these things for excessively long periods of time.